Ruling’s Effect on Autism Coverage
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles last week ruled that the Department of Managed Health Care cannot use licensure as a basis...
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KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles – Autism Health Insurance Victory
The California Court of Appeals has ruled that all insurance plans will now have to cover perhaps the most effective treatment for autism, whether the...
KCAL TV-9 Los Angeles – CA Appeals Court Rules Public Insurance Must Cover Autism Treatment
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/calif-appeals-court-rules-public-insurance-must-cover-autism-treatment A therapy for children with autism must be covered by public insurance companies, a California appeals court has ruled. Applied Behavior Analysis — or...
Court of Appeal Rules HMO Regulator Cannot Discriminate Against Autistic Children by Erecting Hurdles to Key Treatments
<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-20369" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images_justice_scales.jpg" style="width: 86px; height: 110px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="86" height="110" />Santa Monica, CA -- In a complex opinion issued yesterday, the California Court of Appeal ended the Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) discriminatory practice of allowing HMOs to deny treatment for autistic children of state employees and low-income families enrolled in the Healthy Families program on the basis that such treatment can only be administered through state-licensed providers.<br />
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Autism Discrimination Barred
We’re very proud of the legal team’s recent victory in a lawsuit to bar discrimination against children. The California Court of Appeal’s decision ended the...
U.S. Appeals Court Rules Google Not Exempt From Wiretap Law In Wi-Spy Suit
<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-1893" alt="" class="right" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/images_google-car.jpg" style="width: 211px; height: 161px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="460" height="350" />SANTA MONICA, CA – A federal appeals court ruled today that Google’s interception of messages from private Wi-Fi networks is not exempt from federal wiretap laws, opening the way for a class action suit in the Wi-Spy case to move forward with possible damages amounting to billions of dollars.<br />
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Motion Seeks To Block Santa Susana Field Lab Demolition Work
<p>A consumer advocacy group has filed for a preliminary injunction seeking to prevent the state from allowing Boeing Co. to conduct cleanup work at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory until an environmental report on the project has been completed.</p>
<p>The motion was filed Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court by a Los Angeles law firm on behalf of Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog.</p>
Consumer Group Asks Judge To Halt Radiation Cleanup At Santa Susana Field Laboratory
<p class="NORMAL">The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog is asking a Sacramento judge to halt the demolition and removal of buildings and contaminated waste from an area of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory used as a nuclear test site.</p>
<p class="NORMAL">Boeing Co., which owns most of the 2,800-acre site in the hills south of Simi Valley, and the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control, which is overseeing the cleanup of radioactive and chemical contamination at the lab, had agreed to stop demolition work until Sept. 30.</p>
Consumer Watchdog Files Preliminary Injunction Motion To Stop Illegal State Approval of Boeing Radioactive Waste Demolition and Disposal
<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-20376" alt="" class="right" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images_toxicwaste.jpg" style="width: 211px; height: 138px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="300" height="196" />SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog and Strumwasser & Woocher have filed a motion in Sacramento Superior Court for a preliminary injunction freezing all of Boeing’s demolition of structures and disposal of radioactive waste at the Santa Susana Field Lab in Simi Valley—including a plutonium fuel fabrication building.
Environmental Watchdogs Want To Block Santa Susana Debris From Entering Landfills
<p><a href="http://www.scpr.org/blogs/environment/2013/09/04/14660/environmental-watchdogs-want-to-block-santa-susana/">Click here to listen to the audio segment of this radio broadcast</a>.</p>
<p>A coalition of watchdog groups has asked a court to stop the Boeing Corporation from sending demolition debris from the closed Santa Susana Field Laboratory to recycling centers and landfills.</p>
<p>Boeing has been demolishing buildings at the old rocket and nuclear testing site, where a partial nuclear meltdown half a century ago caused widespread contamination.</p>
Questions Swirl About Settlement In Hyundai Fuel Economy Litigation
<p><strong>Settlement over MPG claims seen as 'sweetheart deal' by some plaintiffs</strong></p>
Watchdog Groups File Suite Claiming Improper Disposal Of Field Lab Waste
<p><strong>Allegations take aim at DTSC</strong></p>
<p>Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica-based nonprofit, believes radioactive waste at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley is being improperly disposed of and has filed a lawsuit against the state’s toxic substances and health departments.</p>